Guitar

One of the most popular hobbies today is playing the guitar. The guitar is contributes great to most of today's music. The guitar can serve to several types of music including rock, country, blues and many more. The many parts of the guitar contribute to its wide use in music. To understand how a guitar is used, we must know what is made up of.

The guitar is divided into three parts, the hollow body, the neck, and the head. The hollow body contains the most important part which is the soundboard. The soundboard is a wooden piece that is mounted on the front of the guitar. The sound board's job is to make the guitar sound loud enough so that we can hear it. In the center of the sound board is the sound hole. The hole is usually round and placed in the center but it can vary depending on the instrument. On the soundboard is the bridge. The bridge holds one end of the strings. Embedded within the bridge is a part called the saddle. The strings rest against the saddle when attached to the bridge. When the musician plays the guitar he strums the strings which cause them to vibrate. The vibrations of the strings are carried trough the saddle to the bridge and then finally to the sound board. This causes the entire soundboard to vibrate. The hollow body of the guitar amplifies the vibrations of the soundboard. The body of the guitar has an inner curved shape called the "waist." This curve allows the player to rest the guitar on their knee. The two out curves are the called bouts. The neck of the guitar connects to the upper bout. The lower bout is where the bridge is attached. The bouts affect the tone of the sound. The lower bout emphasizes the lower tones while the upper bout emphasizes higher tones. The neck contains the fingerboard. The finger board is on the front of the neck which contains the frets. The frets are the metal pieces that are cut into the fingerboard as certain intervals. You change the length of the string by pressing down